Summary

This book will inspire discussion as supplemental reading for students in agriculture, food science, biology, ecology, and history of science. Professionals and academics with an interest in organic agriculture or the history of science and technology will want to read this thought-provoking book.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Science, Technology, and the Critics of Modernity 2 Science, Integrated Inquiry, and Verification 3 Reductionism: Sin, Salvation, or Neither? 4 On the Trail of DNA: Genes and Heredity 5 Vitalism and Homeopathy 6 Disenchantment and the Cost of Rejected Knowledge 7 Rejected Knowledge, Nature, and the Occult 8 Vitalism, the Organic, and the Precautionary Principle 9 Feeding Six Billion People 10 Romantics and Reactionaries 11 Risk, Representation, and Change

This book will inspire discussion as supplemental reading for students in agriculture, food science, biology, ecology, and history of science. Professionals and academics with an interest in organic agriculture or the history of science and technology will want to read this thought-provoking book.

Summary

This book will inspire discussion as supplemental reading for students in agriculture, food science, biology, ecology, and history of science. Professionals and academics with an interest in organic agriculture or the history of science and technology will want to read this thought-provoking book.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Science, Technology, and the Critics of Modernity 2 Science, Integrated Inquiry, and Verification 3 Reductionism: Sin, Salvation, or Neither? 4 On the Trail of DNA: Genes and Heredity 5 Vitalism and Homeopathy 6 Disenchantment and the Cost of Rejected Knowledge 7 Rejected Knowledge, Nature, and the Occult 8 Vitalism, the Organic, and the Precautionary Principle 9 Feeding Six Billion People 10 Romantics and Reactionaries 11 Risk, Representation, and Change